Alejandro Bercovich against IMF revenues | The …

He runs a radio show from Monday to Friday and also directs a television series. However, and far from denying the vertigo of daily news, Alejandro Bercovich He wanted to leave what he tells and investigate in a more sustainable support since Mauricio Macri has assumed: the brutal economic policy of his government. By focusing on what he calls "the most dizzying cycle of debt in the history of humanity" the journalist and the economist made their premiere this week Background Still the same recipe, documentary film that explores the ups and downs of Argentina's return to the International Monetary Fund. It appears in the first person who tells the "political, economic and culinary journey through the IMF's revenue".

The "kitchen" is not futile in the description that he made himself of the film, but to refer to the metaphor used to count the recipes, ingredients, cooks and guests of the big package of the big international financial entity. With the help of chef Juan Bracelli, Bercovich disarms the kitchen of the powerful and reveals the links between "guests", those countries that have turned to the IMF and have been jailed for their adjustment and reorganization measures. # 39; austerity. Like this Interviews of C5N and Radio Con Vos journalists with referees and leaders from Greece and Portugal, two cases he explores to reflect on the Argentine experience, and clearly explains, dynamism and theatrical resources, how he falls into the "trap" that determines "the life of the people for many years".

Consulted by Page / 12 whether the story he tells is a tragedy (in which the characters are inevitably drawn to a disastrous end) or a tragedy (where tragic elements mingle with comedians), the economist says he tried to do what he always does when he works: "If there are things to be scandalized, I prefer to laugh a little to allow another type of thinking, and I think in the movie, we made a blink from the eye so that the same thing happens to the viewer, "he says.

– He was surprised when Macri admitted for the first time having "started conversations" with the International Monetary Fund?

-No, since December 2017, there were already rumors. Later, when Christine Lagarde came to Argentina, it was obvious that it was not a formal and simply academic visit. What is amazing is how, in a single management cycle, the government has so accelerated the phases that a crisis tends to have over time. EThis is the first government that has defaulted on its debtwho explodes in his hands before giving the order. And it is also surprising to see how a government supported by the establishment and the world's largest companies would have achieved this result.

– In another interview about this first, he said that two things should now happen: that people go down the streets against the IMF and that those responsible for this agreement are prosecuted. Do you see that achievable in the next Argentina?

-I do not know if it is feasible. The renegotiation of the monstrous debt will have to be accompanied by society. It is necessary for people to know the conditions of our children's future and that it is not a technical and financial problem that must be maintained in the sphere of those who know, because that is what has has the same problem time and time again, of the dictatorship here. With respect to what is judgeable, I say that because the only way to avoid repeating an environmental or economic crime committed by the state is that those who commit it bear the responsibility criminally and individually. This is something exemplary, that the next Secretary of Finance must think twice before borrowing under the names of (Luis) Caputo, (Guido) Sandleris or (Federico) Sturzenegger.

-He said that he wanted the documentary to be used for learning. Is it valid for the whole region?

-Of course, in fact, I think it falls at a great time to be discussed throughout Latin America. Ecuador is on fire for a program approved by the IMF, with measures supported and dictated by it; Peru in political crisis while he was the spoiled child of the Fund, so much so that there was the annual meeting of 2016; and many other countries in crisis like ours, a country that changes its political sign with a merged president.

-Because The bottom Is it a documentary and not, for example, a book? What potentialities have you seen in this format?

-While we all have a TV and a cinema in the phone, it seemed to me that the audio-visual had greater power than the written lyrics. I do not feel like a documentary director, let alone, even sometimes I thought it was daring, but there is a lot of talent in the production team and they made me discover the benefits of the genre. As I have always liked, what I liked the most is to learn along the way.

*The bottom It can be seen on Tuesdays at 9 pm at the Cultural Cooperation Center (Av. Corrientes 1543) and at the Padre Mugica Cultural Center (Piedras 720). For special functions, see: www.fondo.com.ar/